What is your choice in joy sticks and throttle's

Or What do you use and WHY??

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I always thought that Saitek gave you the best bang for the buck. CH makes great products though if you don't mind spending a bit more. I always thought the Cougars were overrated.

That about sums it up... for the moment. It'll be interesting to see how the new Logitech and soon to be released Saitek models pan out.

All I'm going to say is that my CH stick and pedals are now seven years old, and still working faultlessly. Divide £250 by 10,000 (approx hours of use) and that I believe is "bang for the buck"

B

My first Saitek which I have now, will be my last saitek....Have never had a worse stick.

K2

My CH fighterstick is the best stick I have ever had.Very precise and it just...works!
I also have CH pedals,and they work exactly the same as they did when they were new,some years ago.
As for saitek,I stopped that after the X45,a nice stick let down by poor build quality.I do like the Saitek throttle quad though,the build quality is not up to a CH product,and its a bit flimsy,but for the price its pretty good.

Vote for CH here.

From my experience the CH is head and shoulders above Saitek. All three Saiteks I've bought/used lost center accuracy after a while.

I'll paraphrase BC's comments based on my experience. You get a lot of stick for the money when you purchase Saitek. The problem is after 6 months to a year it's not the same stick. It gets sloppy.

Compare that to CH and I've not had a single issue with it. Every button works as it did new. The mouse look button on the throttle is flawless after 4 years.

I see the new 'bright and shiney' on the horizon and think: Will it behave as well as my CH does a year from now?


Tuphlandng, IF this is a serious hobby and you see yourself enjoying it longer than a passing fancy, get CH. The extra cash you shell out now will pay off in the long run. (And quite frankly if you shop around the prices aren't that far apart. Maybe $50.00 for a whole HOTAS set up.....and I'm being generous. I doubt it's that much of a price disparity for a comparable HOTAS.)


Ask HaVoK about Saitek. I think he has an interesting YouTube telling us all what he thinks of Saitek.

Bump, bump and bump for the CH products. Built to last and they do. I have the Stick, throttle and pedals and they have been used daily for many many years.

Both brands have soft/floppy springs...I used a Saitek Cyborg Platinum VERY briefly ...it was unbelievably limp...I dont know how anyone can fly a stick with a soft spring (and NO the Cougar HOTAS doesnt have a hard/strong spring its quite floppy about the center and just gets tight but in a vague/hard rubbery way near the edge of the gate-THATS why its tiring to fly with not the spring tension-why do you think theres an EVENSTRAIN Mod available for it -Mod for a £200/$300 stick- what a joke!?) I also got a used set of CH pedals and they had a distinct 'notch' in them-NOT in the centre-which was very disappointing -a roughness at a certain point in the travel.They felt way too soft also ,and people say their sticks are limp also.
Amazingly I have used the budget Logitech Extreme 3d Pro for all of my IL2 'career'(5+ years now?)except for a week at the very begining.Of course Ive gotten through a few ...I love em sooooo much I must have bought six or seven ....maybe two or three have dropped off in performance compared with a new one ,but hey at what they thats not an issue for me (especially when compared with any other 'high spec' hardware...)

The CH stuff is beginning to lag a bit in the tech dept, i.e. no rotaries. That said, I have a set of CH pedals and the Pro throttle and I like them a lot. I've been using a Saitek Cyborg Evo for the last four years or so and it has worked well. That said, I think I will eventually get a CH Fighterstick to complete the trio.

my stick is very, very high quality... Saitek ST2090 Pro...

Actually i like the feel of it a lot. its comfortable (for leftys too) and it was only $10 at wally world. I dont see why people think they are so bad, (except the build quality).

There's nothing wrong with a $10 stick if it works for you.

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Originally posted by Tully__:
That about sums it up... for the moment. It'll be interesting to see how the new Logitech and soon to be released Saitek models pan out.

I think this X-65 will be the best one they have made to date.

I gather it doesn't really matter what you choose to use or how much you spend,from $10-$200, as long as you enjoy the game as it was meant to be.


Cheers

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Originally posted by Tuphlandng:
I would like to thank all who participated in this thread. Your input was helpful and from what I gather it doesn't really matter what you choose to use or how much you spend,from $10-$200, as long as you enjoy the game as it was meant to be.


Cheers

Yup, pretty much

CH is worth the extra money. You'll have a pile of dead Saiteks by the time a single CH stick breaks down. CH stuff is indestructable and extremely reliable.

I wouldn't buy another brand...not that I'd need too as I don't see any of my CH stuff needing to be replaced for some time to come.